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Now showing — The Portrait of a Lady · 5 works
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Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
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A stirring, straightforward work written near the end of her luminous career, Virginia Woolf's *The Years* is a portrait of the Pargiters, a staid London family presided over by Colonel Abel Pargiter. In some ways, "portrait" is not an entirely appropriate word, because Woolf's subject in this novel (and an abiding...
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A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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The Portrait of a Lady is a 1881 book by Henry James, linked to England and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.
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The Corleone family saga. Power, loyalty, and the corruption of the American dream.
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